Should I do a new Encoder Showdown?
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It used to be a tradition to do an "Encoder Showdown" every year, where encoders are "competing" in quality against another using VMAF's quality metrics. The last one happened in late 2022 and has so far been the baseline for both QSV and NVENC recommendations. It is quite a bit outdated, and I even recommend looking at other resources.
Since the release of that post, all involved parties have improved if not completely redone their encoders, resulting in vastly different toolsets being available. Particularly AMD stopped idling around, and finally got around to improving their encoder quality and toolset. Not just that, but AV1 is now possible in "faster than real time", which at the time was only possible with SVT-AV1.
So, the question is: Should I do a new Encoder Showdown?